Radeon 9700 Overheating???

[Elton Woo]

Matt Brei wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Anyone having what seems to be a heat problem with a 9700 or any other
>newer radeon that uses the fglrx driver from ATI for that matter.  I
>  
>

>Right away I shut down and opened up the case to feel the video card and
>sure enough it was running quite hot.  I didn't feel like messing with
>it so I just left the machine off so it could cool down over night.  At
>first when I power up it runs fine.  In the time that its taken me to
>get this far into this message it has started again.  I've tried another
>
Doesn't this video card come with an onboard fan? Have you tried running it
with the case open just to make sure that the fan *is* indeed working? 
... if it *didn't*
come with its own fan and heat sink, then you were sold bogus goods, 
IMVHO...
Your problem sounds more like a hardware glitch, rather than something 
caused
by software (...short of a virus !).

HTH,

Elton Woo ;-)

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